Arthur Redvers Baden Powell (13 March 1900 – 25 November 1955) was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 3 months in 1950.
The name Baden, particularly when associated with the surname Powell, became famous in 1900–1901, the year Arthur William Baden Powell was born, because of the Siege of Mafeking, the most famous British action in the Second Boer War, which turned the British Commander of the besieged, Robert Baden-Powell, into a national hero.
Redvers was also the name of another General made famous during that War, Sir Redvers Buller Powell was elected to parliament as the Labor member for Wollongong-Kembla at the January 1950 by-election caused by the resignation of the incumbent Labor member, Billy Davies, who successfully contested the seat of Cunningham at the 1949 federal election.
In a normally safe Labor seat, in which Davies had usually been elected unopposed, Powell was strongly challenged by the Liberal's Gerald Sargent.
He lost the Labor pre-selection ballot for the 1950 election to Rex Connor, who would eventually become the federal member for Cunningham and a minister in the government of Gough Whitlam.